FRUIT VENDORS

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 84, 6 October 1922, Page 7

FRUIT VENDORS

LOWER PBICES FOR STANDS.

Hindus apparently find that the sett-i ing of fruit in the streets is not a veryf* lucrative way of making a living. It is>< noticeable that some of the vendors must/, be doing something in. the way of a*i "freeze" for the best part of the timo,y and the poor bidding at the auction salo'.| of fruit stands yesterday, would indicatasi that the Hindus are of that onimon^' Fifteen stands wero put up for audio*! by the chief inspector (Mr. Watson), and' the only "bidders were Hindus. Out 'of ■ the successful bidders seven gave thai same address (TJ'ory street). The stands 1 were auctioned for the Octob(?r-Deoem-f.j ber quarter, and the prices realised, with'.! those for the corresponding- quarter oM last year in parentheses, Were: —Tram-»i .way. Junction, Courtenay place, £23 15sf<l (£36); corner Courtenay place awl Tory;1! street, £18 (£19); corner Couriena-jJ. 1 place and Taranaki.street, £7 10s (£17)^,1 corner Vivian and Cuba streets, £15 15*1 (£19); corner Cuba and Garrefcb streets,-! £6 5s (£ll 10s); corner Ghuznee anil Cuba, streets, £11 10s (£23 10s); corneff Cuba and Dixon streets, £13 17s 6d»(£ls 17s 6d); corner Willis and Boukott 1 streets, £21 15s (£23); Lambton quay: (Gresham Hotel), £7 10s (£lO ss); Lambton quay (Royal Hotel), £i 10s (£7, ss); Lambton quay (National Hotel), £4) 10s (£5 10s); G.P.O. (south), £11 os (£10); G.P.O. (north), £11 5s (£20); corner Bowen street and Lambton "nay, £39 (£47 ss); Dispatch Office, -l'miUton quay £40 (£42); Thorndon 'Waif,:M~ Shed, £12 10s (£l2 Ss); totals, £210 irl 6d (£3l?-7s 64,